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Affirmative action
- Affirmative action is a term used to describe rules and regulations that were established to protect minorities and women from being discriminated against (Simmons 1982). Affirmative action has changed the way people were treated since it was first brought into order in 1961 by president John F. Kennedy through executive order 10925(Alexander 1999). It helped established more opportunities for minorities and women in education, employment and housing (Dietz 2001). Nevertheless, affirmative action has caused much controversy in our society and whether it has benefited America (Altschiller 1991).... [tags: essays research papers]

Affirmative Action
- Affirmative Action Ten percent too much or too little. Over two hundred years ago the country was founded by a group of white european christian men wanting to make a better home for themselves and their families. They wrote the Declaration of Independence to form the basis for their beliefs that all men are created equal. This was followed by another document, the Constitution. The Constitution set a foundation of expectations for the government and the people. The Constitution has been modified with amendments over the years.... [tags: essays research papers]

Against Affirmative Action
- Affirmative action was created to assist minority groups against discrimination, but affirmative action does more harm than what it can do to help. Affirmative action was created with the intention of leveling the playing field so that everyone can have an equal opportunity to be hired or accepted in to a school, but it does the opposite of what it is meant to do. Affirmative action is reverse discrimination against white males, lesser qualified people are admitted into jobs and colleges, and not all people have an equal opportunity to advance.... [tags: Current Events]

Abolishing Affirmative Action
- Affirmative action is a policy or a program of giving certain preferences to certain (usually under-represented) groups. This typically focuses on education, employment, government contracts, health care, or social welfare. There is much debate concerning claims that it fails to achieve its desired goal, and that it has unintended and undesirable side-effects. There are also claims that the practice is itself racist or sexist Affirmative action began as a corrective measure for governmental and social injustices against demographic groups that have been subjected to prejudice.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive]

Affirmative Action: A Road to Discrimination and Prejudice
- Affirmative Action: A Road to Discrimination and Prejudice Affirmative action: these words bring to mind many different things to many different people. To some it is a leveler of the playing field and a right for past injustices, but to others it is a tool used to cause reverse discrimination and continues prejudices. Affirmative action was born into a time when our country was attempting to provide equality for all and was only intended to be a temporary measure to bring about this equality into areas where it had been lacking.... [tags: Ethics]

Affirmative Action Speech
- I. Introduction A. There are two kids applying to a college. Both have the same GPA, extracurricular activities, and test grades. They should score the same on their admission policies, but one has a grandfather who came from Mexico. That person qualifies as being a poorly represented ethnicity and all of the sudden qualifies for acceptance when the other person does not. That just isn't fair. B. Affirmative Action is a poor attempt of ending racism because it is in fact only justifying racism by its own actions of taking preferences.... [tags: Current Events]

Affirmative Action is Discrimination in a New Form
- Affirmative Action - Discrimination in a New Form The roots of affirmative action can be traced back to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act where legislation redefined public and private behavior. The act states that to discriminate in private is legal, but anything regarding business or public discrimination is illegal ("Affirmative" 13). There are two instances when opposing affirmative action might seem the wrong thing to do. Even these two cases don't justify the use of affirmative action.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Topics]

Time to Put an End to Affirmative Action
- Time to Put an End to Affirmative Action Affirmative action is the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This "set of public policies" has had quite a history beginning with the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery illegal. The Thirteenth Amendment was followed by the Fourteenth, that guarantees equal protection under the law. The Fifteenth Amendment brought up the rear, which forbids racial discrimination in access to voting.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Topics]:: 8 Works Cited

Rawlsian Affirmative Action
- Rawlsian Affirmative Action: Compensatory Justice as Seen from the Original Position * ABSTRACT: In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls presents a method of determining how a just society would allocate its "primary goods"-that is, those things any rational person would desire, such as opportunities, liberties, rights, wealth, and the bases of self-respect. (1) Rawls' method of adopting the "original position" is supposed to yield a "fair" way of distributing such goods. A just society would also have the need (unmet in the above work) to determine how the victims of injustice ought to be compensated, since history suggests that social contracts are likely to be violated.... [tags: Philosophy Philosophical Papers]

It's Time to Put and End to Affirmative Action
- Affirmative action should be changed or ended altogether In the late Sixties, Martin Luther King Jr. fought hard for equal rights. Before he was assassinated in 1968, he made a speech about his vision of human equality. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” (King) The Sixties were a turning point for racial equality. Because of leaders like King, many blacks and minority groups began to face/win new opportunities that were never before available.... [tags: essays research papers fc]:: 3 Works Cited

Affirmative Action: A Means to End Inequality
- Affirmative Action: A Means to End Inequality Throughout the United States, many types of inequality can be identified. What exactly does this statement mean. First, defining inequality would help one best approach this matter. The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines inequality as “the quality of being unequal or uneven” through” a lack of evenness b: social disparity c: disparity of distribution or opportunity d: the condition of being variable” (Merriam Webster). Now the question is clearer, as identifying types of inequality is equivalent to recognizing the different groups that exist within the boundaries of the U.S.... [tags: Equality Rights Minorities Papers]:: 32 Works Cited

Against Affirmative Action in College Admissions
- Affirmative Action Affirmative action's role in colleges and universities has been a strongly debated topic. The heated subject has again come to the forefront due to the recent bans imposed on affirmative action by California and Washington. In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled (University of California Regents v. Bakke) that universities are allowed to consider race as a factor when choosing which students to accept. Affirmative action was intended to level the racial playing field and give minorities chances in the workplace and the classroom that they would not have received in the absence of affirmative action.... [tags: University Admissions Education essays papers]:: 4 Works Cited

Affirmative Action: A Counter Productive Policy
- By definition, racism is the discrimination of prejudice against race. Discrimination, by definition, is treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than on individual merit. In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10.925, he was indicating that individual businessmen should take affirmative action to ensure applicants and employees are treated “without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” His executive order implied equal access and nothing else.... [tags: essays research papers]

None of This is Fair by Mr. Richard Rodriguez
- ... Discrimination is still a chronic global issue, and drastic inequalities still exist at the present time. Thus, the Affirmative Action Law is an important tool to many minorities most especially to women, and people of color, for the reason that this program provides an equality on educational, and professional opportunities for every qualified individual living in the United States. Without this program, a higher education would have been impossible for a “minority students” to attain. Additionally, without the Affirmative Action, a fair opportunity to have a higher-level career could be out of sight.... [tags: Discrimination, affirmative action]

History and Opinions on the Policy of Affirmative Action
- Racism is a problem that is older than the country we live in. Since the beginning of time racism, prejudice, and discrimination has existed. Through the years, society has come a long way in dealing with this everlasting problem; however, the problem still lives in today's world. It affects who we are and where we will go in our life. So if racism can so dramatically alter our life, one might question what can be done to cease this unfair practice. One solution, or rather method to equal out the past inequalities African American and other minorities, is Affirmative Action.... [tags: American History]

Affirmative Action in Our Current Society
- Affirmative action is a way of giving jobs and educational chances to those who many feel would be discriminated against. This was founded in the early 1970's as a way to keep discrimination from continuing in theses such institutions. People of all walks of life have many different views of what affirmative action really is about. My view of this situation is a mixed one. When affirmative action began it was set fort to make sure that well deserving people could receive opportunities for education and employment based on their qualifications and merit not if the were considered to be a minority.... [tags: Sociology]

Affirmative Action Helps Qualified Minorities
- Affirmative Action Helps Qualified Minorities Affirmative action doesn't require a company to hire the local percentage of women and minorities, qualified or not. The program determines the percentage of qualified women and minorities available to a company, then sets flexible goals, to be reached in good faith. As a result, numerous studies show that minorities who land their jobs through affirmative action are not less qualified than their colleagues. Critics of affirmative action often evoke images of qualified white males being denied jobs so that lesser qualified women and minorities might have them, all in the name of racial and gender fairness.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Topics]:: 2 Works Cited

Affirmative Action v. Reverse Discrimination
- Affirmative action in the U.S. started to come about in the early nineteen sixties. It was enacted along with many other anti-segregation laws, as part of the "Civil Rights act of 1964 and an executive order in 1965 (Affirmative, Encyclopedia Britannica par. 2)." Today affirmative action is still going strong. It has many positive aspects, but it also has several negative affects, one of which is "reverse discrimination. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines affirmative action as "an active effort to improve the employment or education opportunities of members of minority groups and women." Some of the other areas of emphasis are age, religion, and ethnic origin.... [tags: essays research papers fc]:: 3 Works Cited

American Society Needs Affirmative Action
- American Society Needs Affirmative Action Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. However, the debate over affirmative action has become ensnared in rhetoric that pits equality of opportunity against the equality of results. The debate has been more emotional than intellectual, and has generated more tension than shed light on the issue. Participants in the debate have over examined the ethical and moral issues that affirmative action raises while forgetting to scrutinize the system that has created the need for them.... [tags: argumentative persuasive]

Affermative Action
- Affirmative Action Affirmative Action efforts were started in 1964 to end the long history of overlooking qualified people of color and women from higher education. Affirmative Action sets standards for a business or office of admissions, so that a white man does not have the upper-hand over an equally or greater educated minority. The initial way the government tried to justify Affirmative Action was to develop a human resource approach: first identifying the problem, which is racism then establishing the solution (Phillips 67).... [tags: Affirmative Action Essays]:: 3 Works Cited

Affirmative Action Violates Constitutional Rights
- Affirmative Action Violates Constitutional Rights In 2003, the United States Supreme Court will hear two affirmative action cases. Each is dealing with the actions of the admissions office of the University of Michigan. The cases, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, have been called "this generation's Brown v. Board of Education." (Montoya.) These cases have much hanging in their mists, "The outcome of … affirmative action cases will determine whether our society moves forward towards greater equality or backwards to resegregation [sic] and greater inequality"("New…").... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Essays]:: 10 Works Cited

My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor
- The American Dream has never been available to minority citizens as easily as it is to American-born citizens. Affirmative action was first implemented around the year 1972, however it was not widely accepted or practiced. During this time society was just getting used to including women in higher education institutions so the concept of including minorities in higher education was almost non-existent. My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor shows the challenges that a first generation, Puerto Rican, lower socioeconomic female had during this time.... [tags: affirmative action, inequality]

Whether or Not Quotas for Job Applicant Selection Are a Solution to Racial Inequality in the United States
- In this essay I will consider whether or not quotas for job applicant selection are a solution to racial inequality in the United States of America. In considering this subject I will rely on In Defense of Quotas by James Rachels who argues that the use of Quotas is justifiable in certain circumstances. First I will qualify my use of the word race and clarify what I mean when I reference racial equality. Then I will present an argument that quotas will not work as the sole solution to racial inequality.... [tags: affirmative action in the workplace]

The Age Of White Guilt by Shelby Steel
- “Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative.” These words belong to conversative author and social critic Shelby Steele. Steele is often criticized by the Black community for his right-wing views on ideas such affirmative action and multiculturalism. In Steele’s short essay, The Age Of White Guilt, Steele discusses how the black community has been and still is losing their sense of individuality to the “mob mentality,” and how the modern-day black community is a victim of no-racism.... [tags: affirmative action, multiculturalism]:: 3 Works Cited

Racism in the Twenty-First Century
- Rim Mekonnen Racism in the Twenty-First Century 1. Throughout the history of the United States, whites dominated society by making laws that limited the power of minorities such as Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans. For hundreds of years, whites controlled minorities using laws and mind games to make sure these minorities never rose to threaten their control. In the 1950s and 60s, Congress passed laws to protect the civil rights of minorities such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination based on “race, color, or religion” in the work force.... [tags: Types, Affirmative Action]

We Still Need Affirmative Action
- We Still Need Affirmative Action You are a New York City taxicab driver, a very dangerous profession in our society. A young African American male hails you late at night. You observe the male's clothing and decide that this may be trouble. Despite your obligation to pick him up, you drive on. Was your decision to racially discriminate a significant one. Dinesh D' Souza, a former editor of The university newspaper, does not seem to think so. In his recent visit to the campus and in a debate over affirmative action, D'Souza asserted that racism, although it may still exist, is no longer holding back the African American community and is not a justification for affirmative action.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Topics]

Affirmitive Action
- Affirmative Action is the name given to programs that try to correct past and ongoing discriminations against women, racial minorities, and others in the work force and in education. The principal goal of Affirmative Action is to create more diversity and equal opportunities in jobs or schools that used to be all or mostly male, white, or both. Affirmative Action programs have been in place only a little over thirty years. Affirmative action works. There are thousands of examples of situations where people of color, and white women who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action.... [tags: Affirmative Action Essays]:: 2 Works Cited

Sexism in The 21st Century
- Starting from the 1920’s with women receiving the right to vote women's suffrage has come a long way. Women are more independent now in 2014 than ever before and it's becoming more and more common to see women succeed as doctors, lawyers and CEOs. According to the U.S. Department of Labor the percentage of women has increased by about 40% from 1950 to 2010. Even though it is still not equal, Government action such as the Equal pay Act in has closed the gap between pay differences with genders since the 1950s.... [tags: affirmative action, women, independent]:: 3 Works Cited

The Illustrious Chronus Department
- The illustrious Chronus Department is a (hypothetical) branch of the Federal Government which analyzes past incidents to determine their particular impact upon current matters. This department is currently seeking to hire a new recruit for training in a recently developed program, where the employee will work to eventually become the department's director. The prospect would ideally have a degree in the humanities field concerning history, culture, and research. It is also vital that the candidate exhibit the ability to work well with others in a leadership role.... [tags: federal goverment, affirmative action]

Why the US Should Implement Bans on Racial Preferences or Affirmative Action for Universities
- Affirmative action or “racial preferences” are a hotly contested issue in the United States. For over four decades many states’ public universities have used race in the awarding of admissions preferences for minority applicants. Ten states have banned the use of racial preferences in university admissions including Michigan where on April 22, 2014 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a voter approved ban on affirmative action. This policy paper attempts to influence state legislatures and officials to adopt similar bans in their home states not because the United States no longer suffers from racism and bias, although this bias has been significantly reduced since 1960’s, but on the gro... [tags: Admission Statistics, State Legislature]:: 18 Works Cited

Equal Employment Laws
- Equal Employment Laws The president of America in 1960s was expected all Americans to initiate the 14th amendment that would ensure equal protection of human rights. The three bodies which included the congress, the court and the president did as it was expected by many Americans. They initiated a debate that resulted to the affirmative law in the attempt to bring social benefit and justice. Affirmative action is a set of rule or public policy that was designed to eliminate present and past discrimination based on sex, gender, color, race, religion, or national origin.... [tags: affirmative action, elimination of discrimination]:: 3 Works Cited

Affirmative Action in California: Has It Outlived Its Purpose?
- Affirmative Action In California: Has It Outlived Its Purpose. INTRODUCTION In the past, most California public agencies believed that affirmative action was an effective tool in the fight to correct discrimination. The main intent of affirmative action was to protect women, minorities and handicap individuals from discrimination (Hill, 1998,1). Affirmative action has been used in areas such as public employment, education and contracts. But today, some public agencies are questioning the meaning of affirmative action.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Essays]:: 3 Works Cited

What Affirmative Action is and How it Affects America
- What Affirmative Action is and How it Affects America Everyone in America has certain rights today written in a government document called the U.S. Constitution, but who is to say that they are enforced. One could turn on the television, read the newspaper, or listen to the radio only to hear about how someone is treated unfairly due to this evil action referred to as discrimination. Almost everybody in this great country has experienced some form of discrimination be it age, sex, race, or ethnic background.... [tags: Papers]

Affirmative Action: Keeping minorities down for 30 years.
- The subject of affirmative action in college admissions has been hotly debated since its inception. Although affirmative action was originally supported by the vast majority, that same majority is now starting to wonder if there is a better way. Commonly asked questions include: “Is affirmative action still working?” and “Is there an alternative?” The answers to each of these questions will provide insurmountable evidence that affirmative action in college admissions no longer fulfills its intended purpose and that the only viable alternative is to focus more attention on primary schooling for the underprivileged.... [tags: essays research papers fc]:: 3 Works Cited

The Influence of Attitudes on Race-based Affirmative Action
- The Influence of Attitudes on Race-based Affirmative Action Abstract President John F. Kennedy proposed the first major legislation to combat discrimination in the workplace, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which led to President Clinton’s Affirmative Action legislation in 1996. This legislation was based upon existent prejudices within the workforce and was aimed to correct past inequities as well as present ones. Although American society has advanced a great deal since 1964 and even since Affirmative Action legislation was implemented, basic theories of human behavior assert that individuals will always hold prejudices and practice discrimination.... [tags: essays research papers]

Improve Affirmative Action by Removing Quotas and Racial Preferences
- Improve Affirmative Action by Removing Quotas and Racial Preferences Affirmative action has assisted many members of minority groups in creating equal opportunities in education and employment. Who could object to assisting these minorities, who suffered years of discrimination, in getting the equal opportunity they deserve. The problem is, affirmative action promotes racial preferences and quotas which cause mixed emotions. One time supporters of affirmative action are now calling out “reverse discrimination”.... [tags: Papers]

Affirmative Action Cannot Erase Years of Oppression
- Affirmative Action Cannot Erase Years of Oppression For forty years the issue of affirmative action has been subject to a tremendous amount of debate and controversy. When President Kennedy proposed the idea of preferential treatment in 1961, the nation was in the midst of radical changes regarding civil liberties. It was a time when the injustices imposed upon minorities were beginning to be recongnized, and people wanted to make up for the years of oppression that served as a barrier for the advancement of minorities in America.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Argument Essays]

Affirmative Action in College Admissions: An Unfair Game
- Imagine rushing home from school every day just so you can be the first one in the house to look at the mail. For three months you have been waiting for a really big envelope containing the answer that will change your life forever. Now, imagine standing there holding an envelope in your hand - but it's not a big one, it's a small one. As you're opening the envelope your palms start to sweat and your stomach begins to do somersaults. Well, this is exactly what happens to a lot of kids that get denied by the university of their choice.... [tags: Ethics]

Affirmative Action Essay: Quotas for White Players in the NBA?
- Is Affirmative Action Analogous to Setting Quotas for White Players in the NBA. The NBA analogy doesn't even apply because that is not how affirmative action even works. All affirmative action recipients must be qualified for their jobs. Besides, the fact that blacks overcome their social disadvantages to dominate in the NBA is no justification for keeping them disadvantaged. The argument that it's wrong to give whites an even greater advantage to make up for their lack of merit is irrelevant. If blacks got an equal start in life, they might even dominate the NBA more than they do now.... [tags: Persuasive Essay, Argumentative]

Affirmative Action and College Admissions: A Legal and Ethical Analysis
- Affirmative Action and College Admissions: A Legal and Ethical Analysis I. Introduction The institution of public education has been one of the most controversial establishments in the United States since its inception. More specifically, equality in the conditions and the opportunities it provides has been sought as one of its major goals. There is little doubt that minority ethnic groups have struggled to achieve educational equality, just as they have struggled for equality in other aspects of life.... [tags: Essays Papers]:: 6 Works Cited

Affirmative Action Essay: Time to Stop Special Privileges
- Affirmative Action: Time to Stop Special Privileges Imaging being a young, black, grad-student, fresh out of law-school, looking for a job. You find and apply for the career of your dreams, only to find later that you didn't get the job. Petitioning the employer for an explanation, you find that you weren't hired due to the color of your skin. Wouldn't this enrage you. Would you cry "discrimination", and take the employer to court. Many people would sympathize with you and grant you the decision in the court case.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Topics]:: 4 Works Cited

The University of Michigan Should NOT Use Affirmative Action
- The University of Michigan Should NOT Use Affirmative Action Imagine, your walking down the street looking for a job. You see a sign in the window that says, “Whites encouraged to apply.” Imagine the period in time when just being white got you into a college, without any other considerations of grades or athletic ability. Those were the days of the Jim Crow laws. Now these instances have happened in the past 20 years, through new laws called Affirmative Action. The big argument is over these few years of affirmative action.... [tags: Reverse Discrimination]:: 3 Works Cited

Conservative Views of African-Americans on Affirmative Action
- Recently the merits of a race based admission policy to colleges and universities have come under scrutiny by the American public. Take into account the position of black conservatives, who feel that affirmative action merely perpetuates a system of preference in reverse and does nothing to fix the problems African Americans face in lower educational programs. When looking at the arguments of the Black conservatives and comparing them to the view points of the opposition, a certain conclusion may be reached.... [tags: Politics]

The Effects of Affirmative Action on Law Students and Lawyers
- The Effects of Affirmative Action on Law Students and Lawyers Given the opportunity, do African Americans with lower undergraduate test scores and grades succeed in law school. Does admitting African Americans with lower test scores and grades than other racial groups into law schools have a good or bad effect on American society. On one hand it can be argued these students grab the opportunity and use it. Making more African American lawyers is healthy for American society. The presence of more African American lawyers itself means the concerns of their community will be heard and represented in society.... [tags: Lawyers African American Essays]:: 1 Works Cited

Affirmative Action
- World War One &#61623; Account for the feelings of hostility towards the Austria-hungry Empire by Serb nationalists in 1914: &#61607; Austria was what stood in the way of progress of the Serbian nation. Serbia was a direct threat to the survival of the multinational Austrian Empire and for that reason Austria felt it necessary to thwart Serbia’s plans for growth and development. The Serbs desired more land, especially a coastline with an all important sea port, Austria denied them this by, in the peace treaty of 1912, creating a new country between Serbia and the coast, Albania.... [tags: essays research papers]

The Superiority Complex: Suketu Mehta
- ... The article is well written and unbiased. The comparisons that Mehta makes in their chronological order helps the reader to easily follow through the article. Mehta’s article turned out to be very educative. Racism in America and specifically in New York City has never come to an end, even though they have elected a black president twice. Any New York immigrant, may it be Jews, Mexicans, Indians, Africans or the Chinese, they are all faced with different kinds of discrimination. The chances of succeeding in New York as an immigrant are determined by several factors; for example, if the immigrants fared well in their native country, their chances of succeeding in America are fairly high a... [tags: racism, maximum city, affirmative action]

Motivation Over Money
- ... Although Richard Wasserstrom, author of “One Way to Understand and Defend Programs of Preferential Treatment” disagrees, by saying that racial oppression is different from the “indirect, imperfect, unduly narrow, and overly broad category” (353) that socio-economic status is. I think that both race and social status are oppressive factors, and maybe some people fall under both, intersectionally, but again race issues will become less over time without putting down another race in effort to fix it.... [tags: affirmative action, races, restore justice]:: 2 Works Cited

Affirmative Action: Michigan´s Law that Bans Use of Racial Criteria in Admissions to Public Universities
- The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to uphold a Michigan’s law that bans use of racial criteria in admissions to their public universities brought back national attention to affirmative action. It dates back to the civil rights movement of the 1950-60s, a mass protest against historically racial and minorities inequalities and racial segregation. The Supreme Court’s May 17th 1954 ruling that segregation in schools is unconstitutional in case of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, which overturned 1896 “separate but equal” segregation of the races Plessy v Fergusson case, became the United States landmark case.... [tags: civil rights movement, discrimination]

Which Standard of Review should the Court use when Analyzing Race Conscious Affirmative Action Programs?
- Which standard of review should the court use when analyzing race conscious affirmative action programs. Over the last 35 years, the Supreme Court has attempted to answer this question numerous times; each time clarifying certain parts, while leaving other parts intentionally vague and open to interpretation. The result has been various affirmative action plans being called into question to see if they violate the Equal Protection Clause based on a racially conscious motive. And while the court has ultimately decided the standard of review to be strict scrutiny, the language in the plurality and majority decisions of Bakke and Grutter still leaves wide latitude for educational institutions... [tags: equal protection clause, justice powell]:: 1 Works Cited

Affirmative Action - We Should Not Forget America's Racist Past
- Affirmative Action - We Should Not Forget America's Racist Past Affirmative Action has become of the most controversial social policy issues to be discussed in recent years. It is controversial because it challenges fundamental American beliefs. As Seymour Martin Lipset put it: "Affirmative Action policies have forced a sharp confrontation between two core American values: equality and individualism."(Dudley7) This values oriented approach, which pervades popular discussion and derives from functionalist sociology, fails to explain why similar challenges to our core values did not in the past result in the kind of spite surrounding Affirmative Action today.... [tags: Race Racism Racial Profiling Justice]:: 4 Works Cited

Diversity in the Classroom
- The U.S. Department of the Interior, describes the term "diversity" is used broadly to refer to many demographic variables, including, but not limited to, race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics. America's diversity has given this country its unique strength, resilience and richness. (doi.gov) Diversity comes in many different aspects. Achievement gaps have been identified with respect to race and ethnicity, but also regarding gender, socioeconomic status, learning differences, disability, and limited English language ability.... [tags: social issue, affirmative action]:: 5 Works Cited

Do white males have anything to fear from Affirmative Action?
- Do white males have anything to fear from Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action can be defined as policies used in the United States to increase opportunities for minorities by favoring them in hiring and promotion, college admissions, and the awarding of government contracts. Depending upon the situation, “minorities” might include any underrepresented group, especially one defined by race, ethnicity, or gender. This action constitutes a good faith effort by employees to address past and/or present discrimination through a variety of specific, results-oriented procedures.... [tags: Essays Papers]

Vouchers and School Choice More Effective than Affirmative Action
- School Choice More Effective than Affirmative Action If America is to become an equal society, then the direction of affirmative action must be changed. Rather than continuing to focus the brunt of our efforts on helping those individuals near the top succeed, we must implement policies designed to provide opportunities to those individuals at or near the bottom. Specifically, affirmative action must return to its original purpose--helping minorities move into the middle class through programs based upon equality of educational opportunity and job creation.... [tags: Persuasive Argumentative Essay Examples]

All Things Being Equal
- All Things Being Equal Most of us have heard Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, or part of it, at some point in our lives. In 1964, one year after the speech was given, Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246, which signaled the birth of affirmative action. Affirmative action refers to efforts to increase educational and employment opportunities for minorities and women. In November, 1997, California voters did away with affirmative action [at the state level] by passing proposition 209.... [tags: Slavery Racism Affirmative Action Essays]:: 6 Works Cited

The Effects that Affirmative Action Has Had on Past and Future Endeavors of Minorities in the United States
- The African American experience in the United States is one that could almost be described as irreparable. The African American debut in this country was one that started off as foul as a situation could be. The slavery experience ranks amongst some of the most inhumane eras in the history of mankind. The settlers in the colonies viewed Africans as only 3/5ths of a man and used Africans as tools, or pets, as opposed to acknowledging them as real thinking, loving, feeling human beings. Amazingly so, African Americans were able to advance in this society to a plateau in which we are now, by definition, accepted as equals.... [tags: essays research papers fc]:: 2 Works Cited

Julian Bond's Lecture on Brown vs. Board of Education
- Loose Ends Still Untied Aurora is not known to be the greatest town in the suburbs of Chicago, so it is a typical move for the people from my side of town to claim residence in Naperville. I will be the first to admit that I have often betrayed my hometown and laid claim to its relatively glamorous neighbor. Naperville is one of the country’s “best places to raise a family,” or so I have heard. I wouldn’t be too surprised, considering the amount of wealth that flows through the town.... [tags: Julian Bond Race Affirmative Action]

Research Paper on Affirmitive Action
- Affirmative action is the process of improving employment, hiring, and admission practices for groups previously discriminated against. Executive Order 10925 issued by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and introduced affirmative action to the country. Affirmative action is a way of compensating for the previous 345 years of slavery and legalized discrimination. Higher education has been utilizing affirmative action in their admission processes since the 1960’s.... [tags: minorities, employment, hiring, admission]:: 8 Works Cited

Affermative Action
- Affirmative action, reverse discrimination, positive discrimination, and employment equality; these are all forms of discrimination, though not quite as distinguishable as typical types of discrimination. Many questions can be raised by affirmative action; what impact does human nature have on the use of affirmative action. How is affirmative action viewed in the United Kingdom vs. the US. What is the history of affirmative action in America. What is the impact of affirmative action in international relations.... [tags: Reverse Discrimination, Race, Equality]:: 7 Works Cited

What is Affirmitive Action?
- ... Other regions give preference to minorities during the selection process. There was a positive effect of affirmative action for black, Hispanic, and white women during the 1970s and 1980s was these groups advanced into certain occupations. The effect vanished supposedly due to a political shift during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Countries around the world have different laws and regulations regarding affirmative action. Many countries have laws with regards to racial equality and say the affirmative action is illegal due to the fact that all races are not treated equally.... [tags: positive discrimination, american history]

Education and Affirmative Actions
- What does equality mean. For many centuries, America has had a difficult time answering that question. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, African Americans were not equal since Americans called them property, put them in chains and beat those people. From the seventeen to the nineteen hundreds, women were forbidden to vote; they had to stay at home or work in small factory, thus, they were not equal. However, nowadays, issues of equality are challenged through affirmative action. Across the nation, the use of affirmative action in education has stirred controversy.... [tags: Race, Education]:: 3 Works Cited

Affirmative Actions: African American
- It is ingrained in the fabric of this great nation that education opens the door to success and is a prerequisite of social mobility; more precisely, higher education. The ideal that even the poorest of citizens can aspire to achieve greatness with hard work and talent, is the American Dream that is at the heart of every U.S. citizen. Despite his family’s humble means, President Barack Obama rose through the ranks of higher education to hold the highest office of the most powerful nation in the world.... [tags: minorities, freedom, opportunity]:: 11 Works Cited

Affirmative Actions Have Consequences
- Abigail Fisher, a white woman, has been the subject of many news stories lately. In a case brought to the Supreme Court in October of last year, Fisher claims to have suffered unfair treatment from the University of Texas. After being denied acceptance, presumably because of her racial aspects, Fisher decided to take her case to a higher power. In a story covering the initial hearing, a reporter describes the scene. Fisher’s lawyer argued against affirmative action on the grounds of unfair treatment.... [tags: unfair, treatment, diversity, Supreme Court, ethic]:: 5 Works Cited

The Precedency: Supporting the Affrimative Action
- ... Colleges and universities offer additional financial aid and provide on-campus resources to help better the student’s college education. Supporters also note the rising number of minority applications to colleges and universities due in part to affirmative action policies. Statistics have proven that when affirmative action is eliminated, such as when it was at Berkley College and UCLA in 1998, the minority student admissions fell 61 percent and 36 percent respectively, proving that affirmative action plays a major role in a minority students college admissions process.... [tags: discrimination, education, policies, society]

The Battle Over Affirmitive Action in the College World
- For many the subject of affirmative action is worth protesting over, however, there are a few who would love to see the existence of affirmitive action abolished. Affirmative action has always been a long debated topic with two different communites arguing very different view points. Although affirmitive action can cause friction among many different opionated people, on the other hand, the results of the practice has ensured the college educations for many of minorities in America. Should this practice be allowed during the college admissions process is the question that remains to be debated.... [tags: african-americans, civil rights, students]:: 5 Works Cited

Why We Still Need Affirmitive Action
- ... That is, if the public authorities engender discrimination overtly and deliberately on the basis of race and gender or, if there is discriminatory acts which are inadvertent in nature but which arise either from the fact that individuals accept stereotypes without being aware of it or experience group-bred contempt. Moreover, structural obstructions to women of either majority or minority groups whose antecedents are related to the aforementioned factors promotes a stronger case for affirmative action.... [tags: inequality, United States]

America Needs Affirmitive Action
- “…granting modest advantages to minorities and women is more than fair, given hundreds of years of discrimination that benefited whites and men.” (Fromkin) Affirmative Action is not only justifiable, but it is necessary in today’s world. Affirmative Action can be seen throughout United States History as a leading fighter for equal opportunity. Affirmative Action can assist in creating a more equal opportunity for people regarding higher education, employment and the work force, and creating a more diverse equal community in all aspects.... [tags: essays research papers]

Afirmative Action
- Affimative Action Affirmative action is a plan to offset past discrimination in employing and educating women, blacks, and other minorities. It is the government's way of apologizing to ethnic groups for the injustices they have suffered. Affirmative action is supposed to preserve liberty and to improve race relations, but it is actually worsening them. It is not helping poor blacks; it is primarily helping well-to-do blacks. More effective programs should be implemented to take the place of affirmative action.... [tags: essays research papers]

Affirmitive Action
- The debate over affirmative action is a debate over the conflict of rights. This conflict of rights makes a clear-cut ruling or decision on the subject almost unattainable. However, there can be arguments made both for and against affirmative action. Supporters of affirmative action claim that racism and sexism can only be overcome by taking race and sex into account in finding a solution. They think that giving everyone equal rights is not enough to overcome the burden. Therefore, for everyone to be truly equal some people must be given certain benefits.... [tags: essays research papers]

Affirmitive Action
- The Facts In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issues an Executive Order 11246 requiring federal contractors to “take affirmative action” to ensure that they do not engage in discriminatory practices against workers because of race creed, color, or national origin. Two years later gender was added to the list. Affirmative action is the practice, usually by institutions or employment in government and business, of giving preference to racial minorities and women. The politics were originally developed to correct decades of discrimination and to give disadvantaged minorities a boost.... [tags: essays research papers]

Affirmitive Action
- Have you ever wondered who gets to attend the country’s selective colleges and universities. The really smart kids, the hard workers, star athletes, artists, singers, mathematicians, writers, alumni children. Of course universities want them all. But what about when it comes to race. Suddenly the stakes of getting in are raised. How many African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Whites should there be in each class. Should acceptance to a school depend on a person’s race. Well I believe that acceptance to a school shouldn’t be depended on the race of a person.... [tags: essays research papers]

Affirmitive Action In The College Admissions Process
- Every year millions of high school seniors apply to colleges and universities across the country. Some get in, some don’t. These schools have strict policies on the criteria for the acceptance of such students. The criteria involve many aspects of a student’s prior academic career, such as their academic standing, extra curricular activities and work ethic. These are criteria that put everyone on the same level because everyone has the ability to work harder or join more athletics. However, no one can change the color of their skin, and colleges base their admissions on these variables as well.... [tags: essays research papers fc]:: 4 Works Cited

Affirmative Doublethink
- ... Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 in 1965, which states that it is the government’s policy is “to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunity” through “affirmative action”(Johnson, Section 101). This was amended to include sex in 1967. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines affirmative action as “positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and culture from which they have been historically excluded”(Fulllinwider, Line 1).... [tags: George Orwell, newspeak, literary analysis]:: 3 Works Cited

Affirmative Discrimination
- Affirmative Discrimination Since inequality issues have surfaced in nearly every element of our lives, affirmative action has become an integral part of a solution to these fundamental problems. As an answer to this resolution, this piece will address various issues raised because of these practices, including reverse discrimination, segregation proposals, as well as cause and effect concerns for clarity. While it would appear that white males receive more affirmative action over others, nothing could be farther from the truth.... [tags: Discrimination]:: 2 Works Cited

Speech Why We Need Afirmative Action
- Speech Why We Need Afirmative Action Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the importance of affirmative action. Thesis: Minorities and women would not have gained as much progress as they have without the creation and enforcement of affirmative action policies. I. Attention Grabber A. Nancy was about to fill an entry position at the local bank, when the hiring personnel was going over her pay she found out that she was being paid $50 a month less than what a man was being paid in the same position.... [tags: Papers]

The Argument for and Against Gender Quotas
- Discuss the arguments for and against gender quotas aimed at increasing the percentage of women in national parliaments. Consider the implications of your argument for different quota systems. The debate regarding gender identities in politics is today a protruding aspect in our society. Both the domestic and international gender roles and norms are central in the developments in the field of political science and International Relations. The inclusion of women into formal politics through quota systems is one of the key issues in focus for both the current societal debate as well as much of the academic work in the field.... [tags: gender identities, affirmative actions]:: 10 Works Cited

Affirmative ActionThe Cases of Woods, Ledbetter, and Stone
- Waffle House is a restaurant located in the South and Eastern United Stated. It is a place where a person can get great waffles and coffee. The Waffle House Corporation has had multiple discrimination law suits filed against them in the past ten years ranging from sexual harassment to racial bias. Waffle House is just one example that discrimination is still very much a problem in our Nation. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was originally developed to eliminate discrimination in the workplace and in our schools, unfortunately, discrimination is still alive and well and therefore we still require the enforcing ability of Affirmative Action.... [tags: Civil Rights]

Affirmatvie Action
- The History of Diversity in America Known as the ¡§Melting Pot¡¨, America is a country with a more diverse population than any other. But America also has a long, painful past of discrimination that has been based on sex, race, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation and various other characteristics that stray from the average white American citizen. Through the years, government has played a major role in trying to correct the past wrongs due to discrimination by enacting legislation and adding amendments to the Constitution.... [tags: essays research papers]

The Civil Rights Act and the South
- ... Supreme Court affirmed that no black person could claim United States citizenship. Even when the Civil War ended slavery, the government still placed African Americans in a different position, finding, for instance, in the Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, that there could be “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites and obliquely endorsing continued segregation in schools, transportation, the military, and public accommodations. Similarly, all women were deprived of the right to vote until 1920.... [tags: discrimination, law, congress, action, police]

Physiognomy: The Affirmative Side of Face Reading
- The phrase “take it at face value” adequately describes physiognomy. Indeed, what is the value of a face, especially the permanent features on a human. Can we examine a person’s facial appearance and learn about that person’s character and future. In physiognomy, we can predict the human character and destiny with its face features or body structure. Due to this reason, we sometimes call it ‘Face reading’ rather than physiognomy. For instance, if we meet someone for the first time, we might evaluate their first looks.... [tags: destiny, prediction, superstition, pseudoscience]:: 12 Works Cited

Different Types of Action Research
- At times researchers’ interest extend beyond finding relationships, trends, patterns, descriptions and understanding individuals or groups, instead there are problems and issues that draw their attention. When researchers concern themselves with problems and seek a plan of action to solve these problems, they benefit from the use of action research designs (Creswell, 2008). Sometimes seeking to understand on-going problems is not enough, especially as these problems hinder the quality of education our children receive at schools.... [tags: practical action,participatory action,education]:: 1 Works Cited